Philosophie du marcheur
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Un voyage initiatique, où l'auteur raconte sa façon d'être au monde grâce et par la marche, de faire corps avec son environnement, questionnant tout du long notre rapport au paysage urbain.
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Un voyage initiatique, où l'auteur raconte sa façon d'être au monde grâce et par la marche, de faire corps avec son environnement, questionnant tout du long notre rapport au paysage urbain.
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La voix des sentiers
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Sur les traces du Survenant en compagnie de son fils ou en Arcadie à la recherche de monastères orthodoxes, au sommet du mont Katahdin comme Henry David Thoreau ou bien dans la toundra du Nutshimit avec les poèmes de Joséphine Bacon, Louis Letiecq voyage et marche pour saisir la pensée des écrivains qui l’ont inspiré autant que pour essayer de se comprendre. Amoureux des(...)
La voix des sentiers
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Sur les traces du Survenant en compagnie de son fils ou en Arcadie à la recherche de monastères orthodoxes, au sommet du mont Katahdin comme Henry David Thoreau ou bien dans la toundra du Nutshimit avec les poèmes de Joséphine Bacon, Louis Letiecq voyage et marche pour saisir la pensée des écrivains qui l’ont inspiré autant que pour essayer de se comprendre. Amoureux des sentiers, de littérature et de philosophie, il nous incite à parcourir le monde pour l’observer et à apprendre à l’aimer, car la Terre est une partie de nous-mêmes.
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates(...)
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"Zickzack" is the German word for "zigzag": hopping around, moving back and forth, never following a straight line, avoiding the monotony of one thing following another. This book is William Firebrace's zigzagging exploration of six places on the edges of the German-speaking world. Deploying essays, narration, conversations, descriptions, and lists, Firebrace celebrates locations on defined and undefined borders, where cultures, languages, and histories mix. In his nonlinear wandering, he touches on ethnicity, topography, history, film, literature, myth, languages, and gastronomy.
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a(...)
On looking: a walker's guide to the art of observation
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Alexandra Horowitz shows us how to see the spectacle of the ordinary—to practice, as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle put it, “the observation of trifles.” Structured around a series of eleven walks the author takes, mostly in her Manhattan neighborhood, On Looking features experts on a diverse range of subjects, including an urban sociologist, the well-known artist Maira Kalman, a geologist, a physician, and a sound designer. Horowitz also walks with a child and a dog to see the world as they perceive it. What they see, how they see it, and why most of us do not see the same things reveal the startling power of human attention and the cognitive aspects of what it means to be an expert observer.
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Franck Michel, anthropologue, spécialiste du voyage et de l'Asie, enseigne à l'Université de Corse et anime l'association Déroutes et Détours (www.deroutes.com).
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Routes: éloge de l'autonomadie. Une anthropologie du voyage, du nomadisme et de l'autonomie
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Franck Michel, anthropologue, spécialiste du voyage et de l'Asie, enseigne à l'Université de Corse et anime l'association Déroutes et Détours (www.deroutes.com).
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Psychogeography
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This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing(...)
Psychogeography
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This book examines the origins of Psychogeography in the Situationist Movement of the 1950s, exploring the theoretical background and its political applications as well as the work of early practitioners such as Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem. Elsewhere, psychogeographic ideas continue to find retrospective validation in much earlier traditions from the visionary writing of William Blake and Thomas De Quincey to the rise of the flâneur on the streets of 19th century Paris and on through the avant-garde experimentation of the Surrealists. These precursors to Psychogeography are discussed here alongside their modern counterparts, for today these ideas hold greater currency than ever through the popularity of writers and filmmakers such as Iain Sinclair and Peter Ackroyd, Stewart Home and Patrick Keiller.
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Voyage à Chandigarh
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C'est à Chandigarh, capitale indienne au pied de l'Himalaya, que Le Corbusier mit en oeuvre pour l'unique fois de sa vie ses théories urbaines à l'échelle d'une ville entière. En 1947, lors de la partition de l'Inde et du Pakistan, l'état du Punjab fut divisé : Lahore, son ancienne capitale, étant désormais au Pakistan, Nehru confia trois ans plus tard la construction(...)
Voyage à Chandigarh
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C'est à Chandigarh, capitale indienne au pied de l'Himalaya, que Le Corbusier mit en oeuvre pour l'unique fois de sa vie ses théories urbaines à l'échelle d'une ville entière. En 1947, lors de la partition de l'Inde et du Pakistan, l'état du Punjab fut divisé : Lahore, son ancienne capitale, étant désormais au Pakistan, Nehru confia trois ans plus tard la construction d'une nouvelle capitale à une équipe dirigée par Le Corbusier. En photographiant Chandigarh à partir de 2010, l'intention de Manuel Bougot était de faire un portrait intime de la ville en figeant sur la pellicule exclusivement des intérieurs privés et administratifs. Mais face à l'architecture impressionnante des sites et notamment celle du Capitole Complex, qui regroupe la Haute cour de justice, l'Assemblée législative et le Secrétariat général, ce projet a évolué pour raconter cette ville que ses habitants appellent "The City Beautiful". Manuel Bougot s'est attaché à montrer l'appropriation par les Indiens de cette architecture occidentale et, au-delà, la confrontation de deux cultures que tout semblerait opposer, faisant un état des lieux soixante ans après la naissance de cette capitale prévue pour cinq cent mille habitants et qui en compte aujourd'hui plus de deux millions. A des années-lumière de l'idée que l'on se fait des grandes villes indiennes, au coeur de la densité minérale des bâtiments en béton, Chandigarh exhibe de magnifiques espaces verts, des parcs luxuriants où écureuils et singes se promènent en liberté et où les habitants font leur jogging quotidien. C'est cette capitale originale, le plus grand chantier de Le Corbusier, que nous restitue le photographe, dans ce livre auquel contribuent également l'historienne de l'architecture Caroline Maniaque, et l'architecte indien Balkrishna Doshi, Pritzker prize 2018, qui accompagna Le Corbusier dans cette aventure hors norme.
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Journeys
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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and(...)
Red thread: On mazes and labyrinths
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The tale of how the hero Theseus killed the Minotaur, finding his way out of the labyrinth using Ariadne's ball of red thread, is one of the most intriguing, suggestive and persistent of all myths, and the labyrinth - the beautiful, confounding and terrifying building created for the half-man, half-bull monster - is one of the foundational symbols of human ingenuity and artistry. Charlotte Higgins, author of the Baillie Gifford-shortlisted ''Under Another Sky,'' tracks the origins of the story of the labyrinth in the poems of Homer, Catullus, Virgil and Ovid, and with them builds an ingenious edifice of her own. She follows the idea of the labyrinth through the Cretan excavations of Sir Arthur Evans, the mysterious turf labyrinths of Northern Europe, the church labyrinths of medieval French cathedrals and the hedge mazes of Renaissance gardens. Along the way, she traces the labyrinthine ideas of writers from Dante and Borges to George Eliot and Conan Doyle, and of artists from Titian and Vel zquez to Picasso and Eva Hesse. Her intricately constructed narrative asks what it is to be lost, what it is to find one's way, and what it is to travel the confusing and circuitous path of a lived life. ''Red thread'' is, above all, a winding and unpredictable route through the byways of the author's imagination - one that leads the reader on a strange and intriguing journey, full of unexpected connections and surprising pleasures.
Journeys
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''MigraTouriSpace'' is an artistic examination of travelling as an approach to the phenomena of migration and tourism, and of the many ways in which they overlap. Understanding that when people travel they also take with them spaces and images means that tourism no longer inevitably refers to the vacation as an exceptional state. Brought back home, the tourist’s gaze has(...)
Migratourispace: migrating spaces and tourism
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''MigraTouriSpace'' is an artistic examination of travelling as an approach to the phenomena of migration and tourism, and of the many ways in which they overlap. Understanding that when people travel they also take with them spaces and images means that tourism no longer inevitably refers to the vacation as an exceptional state. Brought back home, the tourist’s gaze has long operated to shape everyday life. For three years, artist Stefanie Bürkle and her interdisciplinary team travelled between Berlin and South Korea, photographing and filming. The result of this research is an atlas of images, with places such as the Vietnamese wholesale market Dong Xuan Center in Berlin Lichtenberg and the German Village, Dogil Maeul, in South Korea, that demonstrates the tension between a migration of culturally coded spatial contexts and post-touristic practices. With a preface by Martina Löw.
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There are many apparently contradictory black-and-white images of Rome that Ludovico Quaroni took around the eternal city. The baroque is to be found side by side with shacks, while the explosion of consumer society – during Italy's economic boom – does little to erase the traces of a city that seems to have come straight out of a Vittorio De Sica or Roberto Rossellini(...)
Roma 1968
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There are many apparently contradictory black-and-white images of Rome that Ludovico Quaroni took around the eternal city. The baroque is to be found side by side with shacks, while the explosion of consumer society – during Italy's economic boom – does little to erase the traces of a city that seems to have come straight out of a Vittorio De Sica or Roberto Rossellini film. And then there are the fountains of Rome and the banks of the Tiber, Franco Albini's Rinascente and Castel Sant'Angelo, the EUR and the Vatican, right up to the market in Piazza Vittorio and the ancient Appian Way. Layers of civilisations intertwining, and in between them, the people of Rome, seemingly indifferent to the passing of the centuries. The architect's eye brings to life an unpublished and surprising book that may also be considered – and this is the common thread—an act of love towards the city where he was born. A text by the writer Francesco Pecoraro, himself a student of Quaroni, pays homage to the great architect's Rome.
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